The President signed the Protection Of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Act 2012 has been signed into law.

On 23 June 2011, following over two years of negotiation, the European Parliament approved the introduction of a proposed Consumer Rights Directive which will set out new European-wide rules in relation to off-premises and distance contracts, such as online contracts.

Last week, the European Central Bank ("ECB") released its horizontal analysis of the most recent Outsourcing Registers submitted by significant institutions (SIs).

In March 2017, the Central Bank of Ireland (the "Central Bank") issued a letter to Irish administrators in the funds industry on outsourcing of administration activities (the "Letter").

The European Union (Occupational Pension Schemes) Regulations, 2021 (SI No 128 of 2021) (the "Regulations") were signed into law on 22 April 2021...

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (Regulation EU 2022/2554) (DORA) came into force on 16 January 2023, and on 19 June 2023, the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs)...

The Pensions Authority (the Authority) recently published its report on the supervisory activities that it carried out in 2024. The Authority confirmed that it expects trustee boards...

In this first article of our mini-series ‘A Practitioners Guide to IT Outsourcing', Rhiannon Monahan, an Associate Director within our Governance and Consulting Services Group and former Head of Outsourcing Oversight.

Earlier this week, the Central Bank published its Outsourcing-Findings and Issues for Discussion (the "Paper").

Since 1995, the Central Bank has applied "minimum activity" rules to Irish domiciled investment funds.

On 18 September 2026, the European Banking Authority (the EBA) published its final report on the new “Guidelines on the sound management of third-party risk regarding non-ICT services (EBA/GL/2026/09)” (the 2026 Guidelines).

In the third article of our mini-series ‘A Practitioners Guide to IT Outsourcing', Rhiannon Monahan, an Associate Director within our Governance and Consulting Services Group and former Head of Outsourcing.

The High Court has provided recent guidance to employers on the pitfalls of failing to recognise bias (or the perception of bias) in a workplace investigation and disciplinary process.

There is a degree of fear, apprehension and sometimes misunderstanding surrounding the application of the TUPE Regulations.

On 25 February 2021, the Central Bank of Ireland ("Central Bank") published a consultation paper and draft cross sectorial guidance on outsourcing ("CP138"). The deadline for responses to CP138...

In September 2025, the Central Bank of Ireland (Central Bank) published its third insurance newsletter of 2025 (Newsletter).

CONSUMER PROTECTION CODE / INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTABILITY FRAMEWORK.

In the second article of our mini-series ‘A Practitioners Guide to IT Outsourcing', Rhiannon Monahan, an Associate Director within our Governance and Consulting Services Group...

As reported in our April update, outsourcing is area of key focus for the Central Bank and other global regulators. On 30 April, the Central Bank hosted an industry conference ("Conference")

On 31 October 2014, the International Organization for Standardization ("ISO") published the first international standard for outsourcing, ISO: 375000: Guidance on Outsourcing (the "Standard").